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Usually a herbaceous climber with thick succulent, glabrous stems, sometimes a weakly erect herb or shrub. Leaves 4.5-7 × 1.5-3 cm, glabrous, elliptic or obovate; base attenuate into a weakly defined petiole up to 3.5 cm; apex acute; margin irregularly serrate. Inflorescence a branched corymbose panicle. Capitula usually radiate, less often without rays. Phyllaries 3-4 mm. Rays (if present) yellow. Ovary hairy. |
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Worldwide distribution: | From Yemen southwards into NE Africa and southwards to South Africa |
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Jeffrey, C. (1986). The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV Kew Bulletin 41(4) Page 898. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 28. |
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